Ross William Hamilton
Before the start of his journalism career, Hamilton’s work was exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Art institute of Chicago, and a variety of galleries in the Chicago area. Born in New York City, January 1952 to theologian William Hamilton and New York City Ballet (first company 1948, corps de ballet) dancer Mary Jean Golden. Hamilton grew up in Rochester, NY and became interested in art and photography via trips as a child to the George Eastman Museum, the MOMA, The Metropolitan Museum and the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
Those family trips to NYC included the highly anticipated ritual of finding and then being placed by his father in front of Picasso’s Gurenica, on to Van Gogh’s Starry Night, MOMA of course. Then on to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, that’s where a few of Rembrandt’s self-portraits, paintings some lithos resided.
Yankee Stadium, another source of photographic inspiration. So he started clipping, he clipped so much…most of the 1961 season Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris home run newspaper photos. So many. Between Rochester’s Democrat & Chronicle and the Sunday NYT he had plenty to clip. Those ’61 season scrapbooks will reside here eventually.
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